Fiddling with Fibre

Playing with all kinds of fabrics, textiles and textile art

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Goodbye Joan

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My dear wife Joan has left us. She battled the beast for over a year and died on February 25th, 2011. She is sorely missed by me and her ...
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Monday, January 10, 2011

Binging on books

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I have been very slack about stitching - the only time I have been into the sewing room for months has been to do some trouser shortening fo...
Monday, December 20, 2010

The Wedding

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Helen and James tied the knot on Saturday. It was a lovely day. Here is is a pic of the park where the ceremony took place and of a couple...
Thursday, December 16, 2010

Another Christmas Party

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This one was Secret Drawer, my friendship sewing group that was started 22 years ago. Members have come and gone, but there are still two o...
Sunday, December 12, 2010

Designing Women Christmas Lunch

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Saturday was the Designing Women Christmas lunch which I was really looking forward to. I was sick in the morning and Kevin thought I reall...
Monday, November 29, 2010

A birthday

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Today was Kevin's birthday - as one of our friends said "you have exceeded your biblical allowance of three score and ten" - h...
Monday, November 15, 2010

Rich in Stitch

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This exhibition celebrates the tenth year of the Designing Women textile group and is the sixth exhibition the group has mounted. We went t...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

UFO finished

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I have been very lax in updating this blog, though I must confess that I have not been fiddling much. I have been reading lots and I may bl...
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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

More ATCS and some other stuff

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I finished some ATCs yesterday. These are for the Metal theme of the bimonthly (is that the right term for every second month?) swap for t...
Friday, September 24, 2010

Australia Wide II exhibition

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I am really chuffed - I have had one of my quilts selected for the second Australia Wide exhibition (I had two selected for the first one - ...
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I have been fiddling with fibres and fabrics in my free time for 50 years or so. Now I am retired I still don't have enough time for everything I want to try. I was diagnosed with advanced colon and liver cancer in December 2009. I have begun a blog that will chronicle my fight to defeat this enemy.
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